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Congress should he win. ellison endorsed bernie sanders, one of very few members of congress to do so. sanders has thrown his support behind ellison for the dnc position. ellison received the backing of incoming democratic senate leader chuck schumer. south carolina's party leader jamie harrison and new hampshire's party leader ray buckley have both announced their respective bids to run for dnc chair, ellison and perez are the front-runners meaning the race to head the dnc could be a proxy battle to those loyal to bernie sanders and to president obama. they need a fight just one that does not...

Ellison received the backing of incoming democratic senate leader chuck schumer. south carolina's party leader jamie harrison and new hampshire's party leader ray buckley have both announced their respective bids to run for dnc chair, ellison and perez are the front-runners meaning the race to head the dnc could be a proxy battle to those loyal to bernie sanders and to president obama. they need a fight just one that does not seem to be a continuation of the primaries.

Putin that suddenly they are going to reset their relationship with russia and vladimir putin will treat them differently than he has past presidents and things will be better. we saw this with obama, we saw this with bush. everyone goes in with a rosy view, then they sort of eventually evolve when they start dealing with putin. i think the second thing we need to watch is rex tillerson's confirmation hearings. that will become a proxy battle for what donald trump believes on russia and what he wants to do. we have seen lindsey graham out there this morning essentially saying he is going to as...

Gates throwing their support behind tillerson but i think when the two guys met, when tillerson and trump met, you saw two businessmen who have been successful in their fields coming together and they saw a similar pragmatism in one another and that helped donald trump feel comfortable in a way he didn't necessarily feel with mitt romney. >> so they're saying this could be a difficult nomination confirmation fight. do you think the trump team knows that? do you think they're naive? do you think they don't care? >> trump knows that and by picking rex tillerson he's setting up a proxy battle wit...

Disempower and look what that produced in this election. >> right, chris. and democrats have to take some responsibility for this. again, there is an african proverb that one should never build their shield on the democrats. well no party wants to lose but of all the times to lose, you lose right before the redrawing of lines? i was in the ohio city when we were redrawing lines and democrats again decimated because when it comes to the systemic ways of which the power of politics works, we have been losing elections. we have to reconnect to the people so we are elected to office so we are in t...